Abandoned Old Cruise Ships

The jewel in the crown of Britains venerable Cunard Line the ocean liner QE2 sailed the seven seas as both a transatlantic ocean liner and as a premium cruise ship from 1969 until her retirement on November 27th 2008.

Abandoned old cruise ships. In December 4 1989 the Mesquite grounded on a reef off the Keeweenaw Peninsula. A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats is floating somewhere off the coast of Scotland ready to crash ashore and unleash its disease-ridden cargo of starving rodents. In 1998 the vessel elongated from 190 meters to almost 230.

The largest cruise ship scrap yard is in Alang India and it recycles more than 50 percent of the worlds abandoned and decommissioned cruise ships. Hosting just under 800 passengers the R-class ships were a bit too small for mainstream cruise lines but too mainstream in design for luxury lines once they left the Renaissance fleet. The 2496 ton 1600 passenger cruise liner has since sailed under the names Delos Polar Star Pacific Star Xanadu Expex Faithful and finally in 2010 Aurora.

CMV Magellan built in. Aliağas ship-breakers are also in the process of breaking down the worlds first mega cruise ship the Sovereign of the Seas which was formerly owned by Royal Caribbean. Now inhabited by sharks eels and eagle rays Bianca C is considered one of.

The ship first began service in 1986 for Carnival Cruise Line. When the ship joined the fleet it was a new era of cruising and an iconic time for. Old cruise ships for sale.

A ship graveyard on the east coast of Turkey is where unwanted ships including massive luxury cruise liners are sent to be broken down for scrap metal. An explorer who entered an abandoned ship which sat untouched on the North Wales coast for three decades was stunned by what he found inside. STAR CRUISES SuperStar Gemini Norwegian Dream SuperStar Gemini took her maiden sailing for Norwegian Cruise Line as Dreamward in 1992.

CMV Magellan cruise ship also heading to the scrap yard in Alang India. The Irish Coastguard received a signal from the former Arctic cruise ship in March 2013 after two lifeboats reportedly fell off and triggered the warning signals from the ships emergency position-indicating radio beacon EPIRB according to which the Lyubov Orlova was heading east and was about 700 miles off the coast of Ireland. The Duke of Lancaster started its life as a passenger.